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Brilliant photo that captures the energy and atmosphere of a band at the heights.

Andorra should watch a couple of hours of FA Cup giant killing rounds. Just go out and be Blyth Spartans www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This will totally flummox them, www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Harvestmen are still spiders even if they look like they have 160 legs

Petrol stations should not be allowed to display any branding. Instead, like tobacco, they should be plastered in massive grim pictorial health warnings, and only show their company name in a small nondescript font underneath.

Median salary earners pay 36.3% of income in property rent, 41.6% in London. Profiteering inflicts poverty. Essential workers can't live near work. What chance of raising a family, saving for decent home, education, pension? Must control rents. Need social housing.

July 17, 2025 jessicalaynewarnermcdonald Jessica Warner McDonald @jessicamcd.bsky.social

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Starmer/Reeves should prepare UK for wealth tax, say top economists. Long overdue. Top 1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined. Laws bent to help the rich - privatisations, PFI, corporate subsidies, capital gains and dividends taxed at lower rates than wages, unchecked profiteering.

"The pandemic saw the biggest sacrifice from one generation for another, since the war. Then we said to children: off you go to navigate the [mental health fallout] on your own." An MP with empathy? IT'LL NEVER CATCH ON! Seriously, well done @chrismurraymp.bsky.social. A touching contribution. ~AA

HSBC have left the net zero alliance - pleased to say we just left them and took our £600m Green economy turnover elsewhere. All companies that believe in net zero, aka the green economy - should ditch HSBC. buff.ly/mmUc61y.

Reform UK's Darren Grimes tells constituents he can't hold surgeries with them because he's been advised by the police not to do so for "security reasons". The only problem? Police spokesperson says this is entirely untrue and they gave no such advice bylinetimes.com/2025/07/03/r...

Your occasional reminder that in two years' time, Nigel Farage will be taking his gold plated £73,000 annual EU pension.

Stromboli from 5 miles away looks peaceful and calm.

There is no magic in air-fryers. They are "just" a small fan oven that gets up to temperature quickly. Now, a microwave with fan oven is a thing of magic....

This is happening on Sunday

Reform is a Limited Company Farage owns 53% It was formed in 2019 to push for a “no-deal Brexit” It wants to reintroduce the Liz Truss budget It wants to privatise the NHS & invest in fossil fuels Close the BBC & break International law It’s a scam Please retweet widely

This is what ICE does: just like they stalked the family’s car and smashed the windows in to kidnap them. They attack people on the streets grab them and take them to concentration camps. Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped.

Two German tourists went on holiday to Hawaii for 3 weeks. But they never left the airport. They were arrested, interrogated for 7.5 hours, accused of intending to work illegally with zero proof. They were held in prison for 3 days then deported. DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE USA.

UK Steel says GAS sets UK wholesale price 98% of the time (!), which is "primarily" to blame for their high power prices GAS only sets wholesale price 24% of time in Germany and 7% in France www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

1st today from @philmoore.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vjX...

Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less.

I just had to turn off #BBCRadio4 just now… I do not tolerate and will not listen to a Traitor #farage and I am sick and tired of the platforming of those who would eviscerate Our Country to further their Own Interests and the interests of Our Enemies. farage *is* a Traitor. Traitors vote reform.

London 🇬🇧👀

My heart goes to out to the people of South Korea amidst these devastating wildfires. www.cbc.ca/news/world/s...

I know both the Labour and Tory leadership want to conspire in drawing a veil over it, but today will be yet another reminder that Hunt and Sunak's decision to push through completely unaffordable pre-election tax cuts was the most blatant act of fiscal vandalism.

It is not serious plan without pulling the biggest growth lever to hand - alignment on goods and services with the EU. That's what gets you 2.2% GDP growth. www.bestforbritain.org/modelling_th...

Germany urges Britain to rejoin EU customs union Sounds like a plan www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Get Brexit Undone It's been tried, it doesn't work, undo it.

Rufous whistler. Southern Flinders Ranges.

Britain and Germany issuing travel warnings to the US is the kind of thing Americans might not be aware of, but it’s poison to tourism and international economic activity. The perception of the US as dangerous due to gun violence is widespread; now the government is chaining up British tourists.

Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!

I tried to have a conversation about the impact of driven grouse shooting with Glenn Massacre (@mrhenrymorris.bsky.social) , but I didn’t get very far . . . Please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036

whoever is doing this campaign in London well bloody done 👍

There was an odd response from the Minister. I've written for clarification. Bottom Trawling is highly destructive of marine life and it is virtually impossible to recover from. It should be banned immediately.

Shadow business sec Andrew Griffith gets a hard time at Make UK’s conference, from an audience he might’ve hoped would be friendlier as Labour hikes taxes One speaker lays into 14 years of economic damage. Another asks what Tories would do to balance the books - to laughs when no clear answer comes

; i'll be honest, from a fiercely anti-Tory stance, i never thought i would agree with of the opinions of the Tory MP for our local constituency - let alone feel almost proud at him being so outspoken and sharing his opinions so bluntly 🙈 - yet here we are. 👏🏻🇺🇦 we are living in very strange times...

Long overdue. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is the death throes of an industry, failing to adapt and unable to defend its transition strategy. Pension investors are among the biggest shareholders. Many pension schemes allow you to make ethical choices on your investment. Make those choices wisely. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Immigrants didn't steal my job. The president did."

In celebration of the 85th anniversary of Lex Luthor here’s an exclusive photo of Nicholas Hoult as Lex in our upcoming movie, #Superman. Photo by Stef Ceretti.